Word: snit
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...will probably go for him, it's becoming the liberal city," predicted Molly Ivins, editor of the Texas Observer, one of the state's few liberal newspapers. "The press down here is incredibly backward, though," Ivins added. "They're not just against McGovern, they've taken off on a snit against him. The Dallas Morning News has been particularly...
...adds: "He was the first person to teach me to enjoy acting." One of Elliott's lessons consisted of standing off-camera while Candy was doing a closeup for Getting Straight and mugging furiously to get her to respond. "He never throws a tantrum, never gets into a snit," says Bob Altman, who made M*A*S*H. "He knows exactly what he wants...
...Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour that just about everybody was elsewhere attending an old Greta Garbo movie...
Igor Stravinsky says that there is no triumph in being 84. He confesses to a feeling of loneliness for his generation, a detachment from younger people "who see me as an elderly crackpot always in a snit." He's far from that. In an interview in the New York Review of Books this week, Composer Stravinsky shows that his mind is as sprightly and incisive as ever...
...York Yankees, stuffed his body into a trunk, and persuaded a bosomy, redheaded prostitute named Gloria Kendal to dump the trunk in the Harlem River for him. Somehow, the body floated clear, and when it was discovered a month after the murder, Gloria phoned Fein in a snit. "Don't you ever watch TV?" she asked him. "Didn't you ever hear of cement...